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‘Special Theme:Gender,Honour and the Courts’ – The four papers that comprise this specialised theme have been developed from a panel at the Social Science History Association Conference held in Chicago in November 2007. The panel and the preparation of the articles were each organised by Mary Gibson with the aim of reflecting some of the recent research in gender, honour and the courts over a range of different countries.

Private Justice and Honor in the Italian Community in Late XIXth-Century Buenos Aires

Kristen Ruggiero
p. 55-68

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Cet article, fondé sur deux affaires exemplaires tirées des archives judiciaires argentines, examine différents types de justice privée en usage dans la communauté immigrée italienne, comme le duel, l’enfermement des femmes dans des maisons de réclusion, la coupe des cheveux, la défiguration de ­photos de famille ou la lettre d’insultes. Alors qu’à la même époque, l’État cherchait à centraliser l’autorité judiciaire et pénale, il établit un système juridique qui permettait, voire encourageait de tels actes de justice privée.

This article, based on two exemplary cases from Argentine trial records, examines several types of private justice used in the Italian immigrant community, including dueling, incarceration of women in houses of deposit, hair-cutting, disfigurement of family photos, and insulting letters. At the same time as the state was trying to centralize judicial and penal authority, it enacted law codes and a legal system that allowed for and even encouraged the above acts of private justice.

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Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en octobre 2012.

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Kristen Ruggiero, « Private Justice and Honor in the Italian Community in Late XIXth-Century Buenos Aires », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies [En ligne], Vol. 13, n°2 | 2009, mis en ligne le 01 octobre 2012, Consulté le 22 novembre 2009. URL : http://chs.revues.org/index1110.html

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Kristen Ruggiero

Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 413, USA - Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, ruggiero@uwm.edu
Kristen Ruggiero is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her publication include Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina (Stanford UP, 2004); And Here the World Ends: The Life of an Argentine Village (Stanford UP, 1988); and The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory (editor) (Sussex Academic Press, 2005).

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